Connections With Current Denver Nuggets
When Denver's second major pro basketball franchise, the Denver Rockets, endeavored to join the NBA, a contest was held in 1974 to give the team a new nickname since the NBA already had the Houston Rockets. The name of Denver's original NBA franchise won, and has been the name of the team ever since. In 1985 one-time amateur Nuggets star Vince Boryla joined the franchise as its president and general manager, and was awarded NBA Executive of the Year that same year. He was President and GM of the Nuggets from 1985–1988. The current Denver Nuggets also started out in the same venue as the original Nuggets, the Auditorium Arena (by then modified to hold a pure basketball court, capacity 6,841), playing there from 1967–1975.
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